Former NY Times Editor Jill Abramson was just like all the other political elites cajoled, shepherded, threatened or just plain bought the Fear about Trump while coming around that it's Her Turn. All year, it seemed, she was part of the club, re-writing history to favor Her Heinous, looking the other way and falsely propping her up from pathetic neoliberal husk to champion of the people. But she's just one of many.

Yet, suddenly she sees the light that many dissenters like those here have been saying all along.

Would be fun to collect them all in one place, all the pathetic sellouts, especially while Bernie was lighting it up and could have used more elite support (then again, maybe not. HRC had every single newspaper endorsement, save for Adelson's papers, and the entire Dem and some Repub establishment - and still lost, bad!)

"The Clintons Turned the Democratic Party Over to Donors. Can It Recover?" By Jill Abramson, Guardian UK
23 December 16.

While the pundit class all said the Republican party was being torn apart by this election, it is the Democratic party that is in tatters. Now it must be rebuilt.

Hillary Clinton chose a bitterly ironic party location to thank her massive donor network last week: the grand ballroom of The Plaza, once owned by Donald Trump.

The people gathered for the glum get-together, including hedge fund managers and media titans, had built the most formidable fundraising network ever seen in American politics. They pumped more than $4bn into various Clinton campaigns and related political and charitable groups over four decades. Many of them have been cutting huge checks since Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992.

In 2016, they expected their $1.2bn infusion to catapult Hillary Clinton back into the White House and were astonished, like the rest of the country’s elite, to see all that money go down the tubes.

I was not invited to the Plaza. (As usual for Clinton, press was banned). But the Plaza gathering was a personal milestone for me, too, and the coda to a long career reporting on Clinton Inc.

Back in 1991, I was one of the only reporters with Bill Clinton at one of his early Hollywood shakedowns. I saw how he loved schmoozing with rich people, how his body language literally changed as he mixed with the ultra-rich. We were in the Beverly Hills mansion of movie producer Mike Medavoy, whose home actually had a chandelier hanging in the outdoor patio.

I was told later by campaign aides that Hillary Clinton had particularly hated the piece I wrote, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, pointing out how the couple stitched every station of their lives, from Yale Law School to the once-famous Renaissance Weekends they attended on New Year’s Eve, into a fundraising juggernaut. She said the story made them look like “we were using our friends”.

Hillary Clinton did not have a cogent economic message. This was the most serious failing of her campaign. It is also the biggest challenge facing the Democratic party as it tries to rebuild with an alliance of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren liberals and the financiers who have funded the party since Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992.

Of course, the Sanders-Warren economic message is at war with Wall Street interests. So who owns the economic ideas that must rejuvenate the Democrats as Trump and his new cabinet try to rip apart the social programs that are the signature accomplishments of Democratic presidents from Johnson to Obama?

How will the Democrats approach trade, another issue that deeply divides Wall Street donors from the Democratic rank and file. Perhaps most important, who are the best thinkers and activists who can begin to answer these questions?

Everyone I have talked to in the party is still too stunned and angry over Trump’s upset win to really get their heads around the daunting work ahead. Democrats are still obsessed with Russian interference in the election and with blaming the FBI director, James Comey, for defeating Clinton. These, too, are important subjects, but don’t help shape the future.

In politics, as in life, Democrats should take comfort in the fact that there can always be sharp and surprising reversals of fortune. On 2 November 1992, Donald Trump lost control of his cherished Plaza Hotel and had to file for bankruptcy. The very next day, Bill Clinton was elected president.

Let the political elites now begin to expose the fraud, that we here have been speaking about for years. It's the least they can do for their rampant intellectual dishonesty that gave us Trump, by colluding against Bernie.

Hillary has been hiding all year, aside from slipping in and out of high-end fundraisers. Because She has No Clothes. These people make me sick.

I've talked to your mother and I've talked to your dad
They say they've tried but it's all in vain
I've begged and I've pleaded, I even got mad
Now we must face it, you give me a pain

How can I miss you when you won't go away?
Keep telling you day after day
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay
How can I miss you when you won't go away?

Your never ending presence really cramps my style
I dream that it won't always be the same
At first I was attracted but after a while
Have you ever heard of the hard-to-get game?

How can I miss you when you won't go away?
I keep telling you day after day
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay
How can I miss you when you won't go away?
And I mean it, too

Out of three billion people, why must it be me?
Oh, why, oh, why won't you cut me loose?
Just do me a favor and listen to my plea
I'm not the only chicken on the roost

How can I miss you when you won't go away?
I keep telling you day after day
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay
How can I miss you when you won't go away?

the Dems - once they are dragged out of the sewer and given a long hot shower.